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The femme fatale motif in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"
2012. urn:nbn:hr:142:413791
Jakovac, Dajana
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Jakovac, D. (2012). The femme fatale motif in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:413791

Jakovac, Dajana. "The femme fatale motif in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:413791

Jakovac, Dajana. "The femme fatale motif in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:413791

Jakovac, D. (2012). 'The femme fatale motif in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 18 February 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:413791

Jakovac D. The femme fatale motif in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2012 [cited 2025 February 18] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:413791

D. Jakovac, "The femme fatale motif in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2012. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:413791

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TitleThe femme fatale motif in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"
Title (croatian)Motiv fatalne žene u romanu Theodorea Dreisera "Sister Carrie"
AuthorDajana Jakovac
MentorSanja Runtić (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2012-09-24, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Abstract
Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) is a story of a climbing femme fatale. It is a depiction of how the main character struggles to finally gain something. While she finds a way of doing it, the question that arises is the morality of her choice. The novel was written in the nineteenth century when women started demanding the change and pursuing their own dreams rather than just being at home raising children. Sister Carrie is a perfect example of a young woman starting her life and actually taking control over her own life as a femme fatale. Femme fatale is a woman who uses her charms and looks to get what she wants. She is fatal in a way that she uses her men for her own goals until something better comes along. In an era of harsh consumerism, Carrie decides that her only choice is to use her own image to sell herself in order to become part of the elite because poverty is something she is trying to avoid at any cost. Aware that in life not everything is fair, she hurts people, mostly her men, along her way to success as a real femme fatale. She abandons them while she goes further on her way to the top. In light of naturalist theory, the novel does not hide the true nature of human beings. On the contrary, it shows, and flaunts it. All of the main characters are shown with compassion. The author does not judge any of the characters because he realizes that all human beings make mistakes.
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Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
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Study level: undergraduate
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Study programmeTitle: Hungarian Language and Literature (double major)
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Study level: undergraduate
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